Pangkham Guesthouse Vientiane

The Vietnamese-Lao border crossing that I went thru located in a foggy and rainy mountain pass. Our cramped bus that had a temperamental aircon system arrived there in the early morning. Crossing it wasn't that bad, as long as one could pay $1 to the officials on each side of the border to have his passport stamped and another $35 for a Lao visa. By the time I arrived at Vientiane, the capital, and settled down in a hotel, it’s evening already. So I walked to one of the open ...

... echte laotische Massage. Das war toll !<br>LG<br>Cyril<br><br>Hi,<br>I spent a few days in Vientiane because I had do wait for my visa for Myanmar. The city is actually not so interesting, exempted the huge pagoda (fantastic) and a nice place in the middle of the jungle where you can have a sauna with herbs and a laotian massage. That was great !<br>See you<br>Cyril

... The rest of that morning was spent sleeping. I woke up around 2pm and decided to head out for some food, Dave was still in bed feeling **** with Man Flu so we left him be. The rest of the day and evening was just spent chilling out, although there was some sort of celebration going on in town which wasn't too disimilar to a funfair, we later found out it was to celebrate the start of the 4-Nation football tournament that was starting the next day involving Laos, Thailand ...

... peu. La premiere que je vois un elephant de ma vie ! Et ils sont plusiseurs en plus !!<br>Et...je vais embarquer la-dessus....,moi ? Plus j&lt;approche, plus ils sont gros.<br> Premiere etape: facile. On nous fait monter dans une tour et puis monter dans un panier d&lt;osier installe sur la bete. AVec un gentil conducteur (mahout, on les nomme). Et on va sa ballader dans le bois, comme ca, tranquillement. C&lt;est drole a voir aller, tout ballourds... jusqu&lt;a ce que notre ...

... not risk it hey.<br><br>Anyway i digress. ****ing born limbo dancers every last one of them. Lovely people the Lao folk. And a beautiful capital city. You can walk it in a day. Tuk-tuk driver have hammocks in the back. People lie around dozing all over the shop. No hassle. Although to be fair the balance was readdressed when a gentleman inquired if i wanted "tuk tuk" as I cycled past. Dude I'm on a freaking form of transport already. Here buy a ...

... place! We stayed in a bamboo bungalow right on the river with breath taking mountains in the background. We didn&#8217;t want to leave Nong Khiaw. There was an amazing Indian restaurant (Dean&#8217;s) where we ate nearly every night. We went throw net fishing with one of the locals one day. We hiked up a mountain, which I really liked, and so did Erin&#8230;&#8230;. once we got down to the bottom again&#8230;. LoL! Actually, we had to laugh; on the way up ...

... The actual wat is in need of some TLC but was quiet cool to see it mostly wooden without all the paint etc. At 5pm the minivan came and picked up Nicole and I for our 24 hour bus oddessy to Hanoi. We said goodbye to everyone and hope to catch up with Gary in Vietnam, we also have to report on the bus trip as a few of the others will also be doing the trip.

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... looked to be a good 500 meters away and 15 meters below us. We had some good food and just talked for a while about life and told each other stories from our past to get to know each other. After dinner we hit up the nicest place in town for some live music and a couple beer laos, and then headed over to the bowling alley for some western fun. (Note: Don't worry, I bowled left-handed. I may do some dumb things, but I do know better than to throw a 13lbs ...

... br>We get back on our van to head back to Thailand. Our driver drives us along the river and see people walking along the river. It's really nice. We arrive to the border, take the bus across the bridge, I get a new Thai visa, and we meet our van driver. On our way back we stopped at a temple. This one was pretty fancy inside. Then 3 to 4 hours driving back to Khon Kaen.<br>